At the urging of conservative advocacy groups, Republican legislators in more than a dozen states are promoting bills that focus on transgender young people. One batch of bills would bar doctors from providing them certain gender-related medical treatment; another batch ...

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Jackson County and its assessor favored predominately white areas over minority neighborhoods during this year’s reassessment process, according to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The lawsuit claims the county and the director of the county’s claims ...

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U.S. immigration authorities separated more than 1,500 children from their parents at the Mexico border early in the Trump administration, the American Civil Liberties Union said, bringing the total number of children separated since July 2017 to more than 5,400. ...

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A federal judge has declined to block a Missouri law that bans companies from labeling plant-based meat products or meat substitutes as meat. U.S. District Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. said last week that he wouldn’t issue a preliminary injunction to ...

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The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday urged ranking members of the House Judiciary Committee to oppose a bill that targets white supremacist groups by criminalizing domestic terrorism. The ACLU said the bill would unnecessarily expand authorities used by the ...

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The American Civil Liberties Union is creating a new position in South Dakota to focus on indigenous issues, spurred in part by the state toughening laws ahead of possible Keystone XL pipeline protests. ACLU director of campaigns Sabrina King said ...

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More than four years after Congress required the Department of Justice to assemble information about those who die in police custody, the agency has yet to implement a system for collecting that data or release any new details of how ...

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Attorneys for the state of South Dakota and the American Civil Liberties Union appeared before a federal judge to argue their positions on a new law that aims to prevent disruptive demonstrations. The ACLU is suing Gov. Kristi Noem and ...

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The unmitigated disaster of the underwear bomber’s success – slipping through security despite waving every red flag imaginable – was enough to make even our preternaturally calm president angry. Not angry enough for his aides, who rushed out to issue ...

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The Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys and the American Civil Liberties Union have jumped to the defense of Douglas County attorney Carl Smith (pictured), who was hit with a 120-day sentence on criminal contempt charges for critical statements he wrote about an associate circuit judge, R. Craig Carter, and prosecutors in an appellate brief for a client.

Smith has been sitting in jail since Sept. 28.

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Some conservatives are critical of President Obama’s April release of four memorandums authorizing the use of harsh interrogation techniques by the CIA and the military. Critics should keep in mind, however, that prior to the president’s action, a federal judge ...

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